deflate

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
2. verb To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
3. verb To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
4. verb To become deflated.
5. verb To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.

   deflate someone's ego

6. verb To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
7. verb To belch or flatulate

Similar words

puncture blow downsize decrease reduce cuff cave empty inflate deaerate

Often followed by

the and it his a their them him in

Word family

deflated deflater deflaters deflates deflating deflator deflators